Well, it has been a long time since I last logged in on the Atomic MPC forums. Years in fact. I was at one time, quite active, particularly in what was the “Unix, Linux and Open Source” forum, back in the days when their forum software was an entirely in-house production.

Lately, my work has been very IT intensive, and while some days things go great, other days it’s a struggle. And when it’s a struggle, the last thing one wants to look at is a computer.

Now when I was active on the Atomic forums, the threads used to move rather fast. In their move to VBulletin we gained the ability to subscribe to threads and get notified of replies. A feature I made quite extensive use of. It was a useful way to keep track of what was happening.

One day I decided I had enough, rather than draw attention to myself with a leaving thread, I just quietly left. I continued to watch the threads from a distance, and over time, the replies got less and less frequent as the threads slipped off the front page. I hadn’t seen an email from Atomic for well over two years, until the other day. Bam! I had over 200 emails in one hit!

I thought this was just a one-off glitch, so I ignored it. Then Bam! A few days later it happened again.

I suppose it’s happened 4 or 5 times now. What does it look like?

Atomic MPC spam

Yes indeedy, that’s my email inbox, and there is more crap from old threads that are old enough to be stored on wooden platter hard drives than legitimate email in my Inbox.

I’ve just recovered my account and hopefully unsubscribed myself from these notifications. However, to the Atomic MPC mods, be warned, if this continues I will be taking this up with the ACMA as the constant barrage my server is copping is getting beyond a joke.